Jolene’s Hitman RPG Playtest Starring Pat as “Larry Winston,” David as “Tom Tom Barr,” and MK as “Brett Fandango” The team met their contact at the Cafe Kasbah, not far from the defunct Marrakesh International School, in the same quarter as the Swedish Consulate, a large and ugly contemporary edifice …
Ketamine was discovered in 1956 and was used as an anesthetic during the war in Viet Nam. It’s been used to relieve refractory pain in hospital patients, and more recently, for chronic pain. It’s also been used to treat suicidal thoughts, and in the past few years, has begun to …
I Got a Lot of Problems, but My Writing Software Isn’t One of Them If you are a writer who uses some combination of a Mac, an iPad and an iPhone, the Ulysses writing app could be the best software thing that ever happened to you. Amiga, My Love Adopting …
My beautiful cat Momo got sick earlier in the year, right about when Covid-19 started, so I joked with twisted humor that it was the Momovirus. In March, I found out her kidneys are failing, so as usual*, she and I addressed our fear with song. With thanks to the …
My contribution to pandemic literature, circa 1992 When the first call came, the Island was horrified. The radio was their joy, and the people they met over it were like stars in the sky. Of course, some traveled to and from the Island, but that was only monthly, and this—this— …
–“Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He …
